How many lone outlaws can pop up on how many grassy knolls before a series of supposedly isolated incidents coagulate into one large, collectively worn blob of disreputability?
This is the question that emerges, again, in the wake of Michael Sona’s sentencing to nine months in prison and a subsequent year’s probation for his role in the robocalls affair, which saw thousands of voters in Guelph, Ont.

Former Conservative campaign worker Michael Sona has been sentenced to nine months in jail for his role in a scheme to misdirect voters to the wrong polling location in Guelph in the 2011 federal election.

Former federal Conservative campaign worker Michael Sona was actively involved in an illegal scheme to send Guelph voters to the wrong polling station using automated “robocalls” during the 2011 federal election, a court has ruled.

A trial that began yesteday in the Ontario Court of Justice in Guelph may finally solve the the longest running whodunit in Canadian political history: Who is Pierre Poutine?
Investigative reporters Glen McGregor of the Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia’s Stephen Maher revealed in the spring of 2012 that “Poutine” had used Edmonton-based Conservative firm RackNine to make his calls.

GUELPH — A Crown prosecutor said Monday he will call witnesses who will describe how Michael Sona admitted his participation in a scheme to use robocalls to send voters to the wrong polling locations in the 2011 election.

OTTAWA - Elections Canada paid more than $47,000 to a former Supreme Court justice who gave the agency a glowing endorsement of its investigation into complaints about misleading phone calls in the 2011 election.